How to use "vaguely" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "vaguely" in popular movie and book plots

  • A vaguely humanoid and luminous silhouette appears in the flat, surprising both the Doctor and Rose but delighting Jackie before disappearing.  - Army of Ghosts
  • When pressed for more information, he vaguely says it is "too early to commit oneself either way".  - Dramatis Personae (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • However, the TARDIS database does vaguely mention the Seventh Doctor's regeneration.  - Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors
  • This latest trauma sends Vicky into a wave of darkness, an almost catatonic state in which she is only vaguely aware of reality.  - A Ring of Endless Light
  • When she hesitates, he vaguely threatens her.  - Midnight Lace
  • ”), vaguely humanoid shape—and begins stalking Superman through the ruins of his Fortress.  - Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
  • He does not betray his name or what he has done to the reader, though he vaguely hints that he has killed someone.  - The Last Day of a Condemned Man
  • Their boredom and tension occasionally erupts in bouts of vaguely abusive sex.  - The Swimming Pool Library
  • This peaceful holiday foursome is shattered by the arrival of Anne, who Raymond had vaguely invited.  - Bonjour Tristesse
  • One Soviet scientist, Pyotor Leonovich Shapirov, a pioneer of the miniaturization process, had spoken vaguely of a way to make it affordable.  - Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
  • The story starts by vaguely introducing a fourteen-year-old nameless boy, who at the beginning has no parents and is a mute.  - Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
  • Damon ventures into the Overworld to seek Callista, but finds only a "great darkness" and a vaguely evil presence.  - The Spell Sword
  • Jim does feel vaguely attracted to Maria, but he is unable to perform sexually.  - The City and the Pillar
  • in anthropology, who puts into words the unfairness of the system that the two engineers have only vaguely sensed.  - Player Piano (novel)
  • That strongly implying that the pattern of life in Wilvercombe will continue to move along the same vaguely pitiable patterns as before.  - Have His Carcase
  • Vladimir takes up the thought loftily, while Estragon vaguely recalls having been beaten the night before.  - Waiting for Godot

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